senesco

== Latin == === Etymology === From seneō (“to be old”) + -scō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛˈneːs.koː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈnɛs.ko] === Verb === senēscō (present infinitive senēscere, perfect active senuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem to become aged, grow old, age (by extension) to decay or diminish in strength, grow weak, weaken; waste away, wane, decline, dwindle Synonyms: cadō, concidō, ēlanguēscō, languēscō, prōlābor, dēgenerō, dēsīdō Antonym: valeō (figuratively, of an occupation) to grow old or gray in an occupation (i. e. linger too long.) to waste away, fall off, wane, decline Synonyms: dēgenerō, dēsīdō, cadō, inclīnō ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “senesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “senesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “senesco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.